The core of this project is related to descendants of the migration of families from Yorkshire, England in the late 1700s, to what is now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in Canada. The subsequent lines and interconnections through marriage have a pan-Canadian and global reach (including: Black, Carter, Chapman, Dale, Darliing, Emerson, Frost, Ibbitson, Killam, Stocks, Tate, Thompson, Tuttle, Weldon).

On December 6, 1917, in the midst of the Great War, a French munitions ship caught fire in Halifax harbor. The subsequent explosion flattened much of Halifax, killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000 more.